Hacker News: rossant

New comment by rossant in "Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard"

rossant — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:32:11 +0000

If you want to see the difference between vibe coding and masterful AI-assisted coding, this is it.

New comment by rossant in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

rossant — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:23:58 +0000

The last jobs left for humans will be those dedicated to keeping AI under human control. By definition, that's the one thing we can't delegate to AI.

New comment by rossant in "AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity"

rossant — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:13:46 +0000

> And even more dramatically, when asked about rumours that its model, Claude, had killed his wife by hacking into the family’s WiFi-connected microwave, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei replied “Well, yeah, sometimes.”

I had to read that twice. "Oh okay. The whole thing was satire."

New comment by rossant in "When did Google get so weird?"

rossant — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 22:30:43 +0000

I can’t upvote this enough. This is such a terrible idea. We’re really living in a dystopian world.

NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates

rossant — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 21:26:06 +0000

Article URL: https://somethingbig.ai/computer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49871018

Points: 187

# Comments: 101

'You Can See Everything' Trailer

rossant — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:48:23 +0000

Article URL: https://variety.com/2026/film/news/you-can-see-everything-trailer-nathan-fielder-elizabeth-holmes-1236856369/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49816148

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by rossant in "Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption"

rossant — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:40:43 +0000

Starting? I've been worried for more than 4 years.

New comment by rossant in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"

rossant — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:19:53 +0000

I agree. What would stop the AI from explaining the proof in a way human mathematicians can understand, and then giving them a roadmap for spreading it through the community via textbooks, conferences, and so on?

New comment by rossant in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"

rossant — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:51:35 +0000

> ... 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists —

As a non-native English speaker, I initially understood this to mean that all living Fields Medallists had signed. I later realized that it meant only that all the signatories were Fields Medallists.

(Apparently, there are 47 living Fields Medallists today.)

New comment by rossant in "I resigned from Anthropic today"

rossant — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:29:52 +0000

An AI, either acting autonomously or under human direction, hacks Russian/North Korea/etc. intelligence systems and convinces them that the US has launched ballistic missiles at them. The end.

New comment by rossant in "Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI"

rossant — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 20:46:45 +0000

Same. Defining acronyms should become a habit when writing.

New comment by rossant in "From Gradients to ChatGPT"

rossant — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 05:29:04 +0000

Am I the only one to find AI-generated courses very hard to read?

New comment by rossant in "A week of using Codex more than Claude"

rossant — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 07:50:32 +0000

Yes, codex/sol is extremely meticulous and obsessed with details. It will happily massively over engineer things to reduce the number of failure modes as much as possible. It's up to the user to instruct it to "chill" if this level of robustness is not necessary for a given task.

New comment by rossant in "A week of using Codex more than Claude"

rossant — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 07:47:02 +0000

I was about to say the same thing. I wish people gave some indication on the type of tasks they use the models with. Which kind of software, industry, programming languages, or even non-coding tasks. I suspect the experience might be vastly different from one type of task to another.

New comment by rossant in "typ.ing"

rossant — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 07:39:27 +0000

Two spaces after a period is correct?

New comment by rossant in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

rossant — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:55:15 +0000

Really happy I got a new PC last year with 128 GB of RAM, 4 TB SSD, and an RTX 5090. This would have been prohibitively expensive now.

New comment by rossant in "Numba in the Browser: Unlocking a New Scientific Python Stack in JupyterLite"

rossant — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 05:17:52 +0000

Congrats for a serious engineering achievement!

I had experimented with a similar idea in an infinitely more primitive way more than ten years ago (https://cyrille.rossant.net/numpy-browser-llvm/). I'm glad to see so much progress since then.

New comment by rossant in "Nano Banana 2 removed from Google Earth"

rossant — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 03:26:11 +0000

I can't wait for nano banana on pathology images.

New comment by rossant in "How to Exist"

rossant — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 03:21:25 +0000

I came here to say this. You beat me to it.

New comment by rossant in "The End of an Era"

rossant — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:54:03 +0000

Is that still going to be the case in 1 year? 5? 10?